Biology:Uruguaysuchidae

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Uruguaysuchidae is a family of notosuchian crocodyliforms that lived in South America and Africa during the Cretaceous period. It was formally defined under the PhyloCode in 2024 as "the most inclusive clade containing Uruguaysuchus aznarezi but not Baurusuchus pachecoi, Peirosaurus torminni, Mahajangasuchus insignis, Notosuchus terrestris, and Crocodylus niloticus."[1] Below is a modified cladogram that depicts the preferred reference phylogeny, chosen from Fernández Dumont et al. (2020):[2]

Notosuchia
 
Uruguaysuchidae
 

Araripesuchus tsangatsangana

 
 
 

Anatosuchus

 
 

Araripesuchus wegeneri

 
 
 
 

Araripesuchus buitreraensis

 
 
 

Araripesuchus gomesii

 
 
 

Araripesuchus patagonicus

 
 

Uruguaysuchus

 
 
 
 
 
Peirosauridae
 

Stolokrosuchus

 
 
 
 

Kaprosuchus

 
 

Mahajangasuchus

 
 
 
 

Hamadasuchus

 
 
 

Gasparinisuchus

 
 

Lomasuchus

 
 

Uberabasuchus

 
 

Montealtosuchus

 
 
 
 
 
 
Ziphosuchia
 

Candidodon

 
 
 

Libycosuchus

 
 
 

Simosuchus

 
 
 

Neuquensuchus

 
 

Pakasuchus

 
 

Malawisuchus

 
 
Sphagesauria
 

Morrinhosuchus

 
 

Sphagesauridae

 
 
 

Sebecosuchia

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ Leardi, Juan Martín; Pol, Diego; Montefeltro, Felipe; Marinho, Thiago da Silva; Ruiz, Juan Vitor; Bravo, Gonzalo Gabriel; Pinheiro, André Eduardo Piacentini; Godoy, Pedro L. et al. (2024-08-05). "Phylogenetic nomenclature of Notosuchia (Crocodylomorpha; Crocodyliformes)" (in en). Bulletin of Phylogenetic Nomenclature 1 (3): 44–82. doi:10.11646/bpn.1.3.2. ISSN 2815-9241. https://mapress.com/bpn/article/view/bpn.1.3.2. 
  2. ↑ Fernández Dumont, M.L.; Bona, P.; Pol, D.; Apesteguía, S. (September 2020). "New anatomical information on Araripesuchus buitreraensis with implications for the systematics of Uruguaysuchidae (Crocodyliforms, Notosuchia)". Cretaceous Research 113. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104494. ISSN 0195-6671. https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/bitstream/handle/11336/157655/CONICET_Digital_Nro.82e2d6f9-1309-44dd-913a-855201468905_D.pdf?sequence=5. 

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